The first batch of students to complete the MA in Professional Writing at University College Falmouth had something extra to celebrate this Christmas - four gained distinctions and four have succeeded in placing their work with literary agents.
Several others have already managed to find rewarding work in various branches of the media.

Blackpool Gazette readers are demanding that two under-threat swimming pools are saved from the local authority axe.
A poll in the paper showed 84 per cent of readers who voted want to keep St Anne’s and Kirkham pools open, when their closure would save the council £350,000 a year.

When the Norwich Evening News launched an investigation to find out how much councils stumped up for Christmas parties, it expected a catalogue of expensive turkeys and tinsel.
But a Freedom of Information request to discover if taxpayers were footing the bill for revelling civil servants revealed just the opposite - some were not even having a festive party at all.

Requests for bigger green recycling bins have more than doubled after The Basingstoke Gazette told residents how to get their hands on them. The borough council hopes that larger bins will be one incentive to encourage residents to recycle more and help the council to meet a Government target of recycling 30 per cent of all waste.

A former Barnsley College student who overcame serious illness has won sponsorship from Yorkshire’s biggest commercial radio newsroom, Real Radio. Suzanne Chesterton took six years to study for her Journalism degree after being diagnosed with Meningitis in her second year.
And after overcoming the illness her world was turned upside down for a second time when she fell pregnant.

Former Ipswich Star art critic and well-known artist Colin Moss has died, aged 91.
He was the paper’s art critic from 1980 for 14 years and later did similar work for the East Anglian Daily Times.